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'We are their home, so we should display them' *
GEOFFREY YORK reports on a campaign to recover looted relics that would put a dozen bronze animals back on their pedestals in Beijing.
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92-Year-Old Canadian Art Treasure John Koerner Launches Autobiography *
A Brush with Life will prove a valuable source book for art historians and curators, and of course for the many collectors of Koerner’s art.
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A bumper crop of Canadian art *
The spring's overflowing auction houses suggest the Canadian resale art market is still very bullish, writes JAMES ADAMS
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A case of the tale wagging the dog? *
If visitors get to see Jana Sterbak's video at this year's Venice Biennale, they might be forgiven for wondering what all the pre-event fuss was about (critic R.M. Vaughan is not a fan!)
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A little bit city, a little bit country -- all Rodney Graham *
A retrospective exhibit reveals a deep split at the heart of Vancouver's consummate comic intellectual, SARAH MILROY writes.
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A photo a day keeps the mundane away *
All of the shows on today's agenda are about accumulation, about art in aggregate.
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AGO cuts staff, blames tourism *
Museum attributes 25 per cent drop in admission to SARS, Iraq war and Sept. 11
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Alert Bay: A child's eye view *
Not your typical school project: the kids of Alert Bay show what home means to them
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America suffers art attack *
A new exhibit at the Whitney Museum looks at the image of the United States in the world, SIMON HOUPT writes. Some Americans may not like what they see
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Anita Kunz: Drawing satirical conclusions *
Canadian illustrator Anita Kunz, being honoured with a Library of Congress exhibit, talks to SARAH MILROY about the change in climate artists are facing in the U.S.
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Art and Culture of India -- more than meets the eye *
India's diversity of religions, languages, and cultures is unparalleled. This complex nation's intricate ethnic mosaic is reflected nowhere as dramatically as in its art, architecture, music, and dance.
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Art: Following footsteps *
Artists explore the idea of putting your best foot forward, SARAH MILROY writes
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Banal Biennale invades Venice *
Italy's 2003 art rave raises troubling questions about art's 'newest of the new'
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Bark if you love art *
Ever wonder what a dog sees on his strolls through the world? Canadian artist Jana Sterbak did, and the resulting video installation is opening a few eyes at the Venice Biennale
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Betting on the Bilbao effect *
Everyone's trying to capture the tourist eye with the lure of a Frank Gehry building, SIMON HOUPT writes
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Between a rock and a landscape *
SARAH MILROY looks at the legacy of E.J. Hughes, an artist who forged a distinct view of the B.C. vista, only to be distracted by the influence of his dealer.
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Carr painting fetches record price *
A tranquil forest scene by Emily Carr fetched a $1,121,250 at auction Thursday, a record for the late B.C. artist.
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Chagall retrospective to open in San Francisco *
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will be the only venue outside of Paris where visitors can view a major new retrospective of the work of painter Marc Chagall (1887-1985). The exhibition, which runs July 26 through Nov. 4, will include approximately 80 paintings and 40 works on paper. It is the first comprehensive look at the artist since 1985.
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Christie's auction breaks record for Toulouse-Lautrec *
A portrait by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec sold for $22.4 million (U.S.) Tuesday at a Christie's sale of Impressionist and Modern paintings and sculptures, the highest auction price ever paid for a work by the artist.
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Confounding the senses *
Nestor Kruger and Luanne Martineau's works at the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver both challenge and defy ordinary perception with their high and street-art sensibilities, SARAH MILROY says.
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Dallas’ Only Place for Art After Dark: The MAC ****
Madelyn Miller takes us on a tour of Dallas' principal art gallery, The MAC.
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Deck the Walls, 2006 ****
Looking for a Christmas gift for that hard-to-buy-for loved one? Why not check out this group art show, Vancouver, BC, December 2nd to 23rd, 2006?
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Deconstructing the AGO *
Four leading architects tell SARAH MILROY how they view Frank Gehry's design for the Art Gallery of Ontario.
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Diana at her very best *
A new exhibit showcases the princess's childhood teddy bear, her pearl-laden wedding train and the outfits she wore on her anti-landmine tours. As GAYLE MacDONALD writes, all that's missing is even the tiniest hint of scandal.
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Diane Arbus: The voyeur is revealed *
A retrospective of the work of photographer Diane Arbus shows why her images shocked so many
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Earth to Frisco: Hendeles beat you by 13 years *
Hype is as American as violence and cherry pie, if one may paraphrase H. Rap Brown's most famous apothegm. Which perhaps explains why an exhibition of 200 photographs by Diane Arbus set to open in San Francisco next month is already being freighted with descriptives like "the most significant Arbus show in more than 30 years," and "the first utterly authoritative retrospective done with the co-operation of her family."
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Exhibition explores not-so-fine art of gift-giving *
Some of these works make you wonder what they have to do with giving a present, SARAH MILROY writes.
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Experts dispute ossuary findings *
The Israel Antiquities Authority has declared the inscription on the James ossuary a fake, but that conclusion likely won't mark the end of the controversy over its authenticity.
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Fans lament closure of Regina's Dunlop Arts Gallery *
Small but vibrant space run by the city's public library is to be closed March 1, 2004.
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Fibre Art and Paintings by Karen Chapnick *
December 15, 2005 to January 18, 2006, Vancouver, BC
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Gallery closing sparks backlash *
Regina's mayor is asking for a decision to shut the Dunlop to be reversed.
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Garber Gastronomic: Imhoff-Stollwerck Chocolate Museum in Cologne *
We had the privilege to have a grand tour of the Imhoff-Stollwerck Museum in Cologne last October, when we visited the city for a giant food show called ANUGA.
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If there's dung, is it dumb? *
Rather than try to understand modern art, we increasingly dismiss it as gross or just too complicated. The result is a steady shift away from seeing culture as allegory, writes HAL NIEDZVIECKI
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Imageworks Winter Show 2005 *
Vancouver, BC, February 1 - 25th
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Introducing Joash Woodrow *
The discovery of 3,500 works by an unknown, 77-year-old recluse may have altered the postwar British art landscape
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Iraq Museums: A litany of destruction *
It's hard to know which treasures were stolen" from the National Museum of Iraq, which was looted late last week, says Gil Stein, director of the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute. "It's urgent that we put together an inventory, clean up the museum, find out what was taken and what was just smashed. We estimate that between 50,000 and 170,000 artifacts are missing.
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Is Gehry in the building? *
The rich possibilities of the architect's early AGO models are not yet realized, LISA ROCHON writes. He should be given time to grow.
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Is the Canada Council's largesse good art? *
You can become so inured to bad news in the arts --- shrinking budgets, aging audiences, battered endowment funds -- that when a piece of good news comes along, it can be difficult to grasp.
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Ivories safe with me, Thomson says *
Billionaire art collector Kenneth Thomson said yesterday that for the next several years he will privately enjoy the five ivory cameos recovered on the weekend."I just want to keep them safe," Mr. Thomson said. "They will not be stolen again, I can assure you."
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Kew Gardens given World Heritage status *
Southwest London's 132-hectare Royal Botanic Gardens -- better known as Kew Gardens -- is the latest British site to be granted World Heritage status by UNESCO.
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Lawren Harris work expected to take top dollar at upcoming auctions *
As a populace, Canadians have an ambivalent view of snow, an ambivalence that turns to outright disgust at this time of year. But as art lovers, well . . . it seems we can't get enough of the white stuff.
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Linus Blankets St. Paul ****
Charles Schulz, creator of the "Peanuts" comic strip that graced the pages of newspaper comics around the world for 50 years and was further popularized on a number of television specials, would be thrilled that his characters are still generating adoration.
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Little Mountain Studios *
A charming Eastside gallery offers a grass-roots showcase for local artists.
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Lord, He's hot *
Talk about resurrecting your career. Name the arts genre and Jesus was there in 2003, MICHAEL POSNER writes.
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Mad skillz with duct tape *
Winnipeg's Robert Butler takes the Red Green approach to reinventing images
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Mau's grand design goes deeper *
The acclaimed designer's Massive Change exhibition ambitiously looks to redefine every one of our organizational endeavours, SARAH MILROY writes.
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Michael the muse *
The gloved one is the inspiration for a show by a group of emerging artists that has become an underground sensation in Toronto, SARAH MILROY writes
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Miracle of the Dead Sea Scrolls *
Some of the world's oldest biblical material is about to go on display in Canada for the first time and prove that tattered, 2,000-year-old fragments can still draw a crowd
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Mona Lisa: So that explains the smile *
The most famous painting in history celebrates her 500th birthday this year. Over the centuries, Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa has been denounced as a femme fatale, celebrated as the paragon of womanhood, inspired three suicides, and survived a theft. Yet that serene smile staring at us behind bulletproof glass in Paris's Louvre museum remains mysterious.
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Montreal museum to host 1960s exhibition *
Starting Oct. 2, the Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal will host Global Village: The '60s. The exhibit will feature about 230 works in media such as design, photography, fashion and architecture, each exemplifying something that was brand new in the 1960s.
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Museums and Galleries of Paris ****
The Insight Guides people have launched a new series dedicated to the great museums and galleries of the world's great cities, and the inaugural edition rightly focuses on Paris.
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My Dream Museum -- The Buchheim Museum **** 1/2
I collect cowboy boots and funky costume jewelry and would love to think that after I die people would be so charmed by the things I have chosen to assemble that visitors would come from all over the world to see my collections.
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New Leonardo da Vinci sketch uncovered *
National Gallery experts using infrared techniques have discovered a Leonardo da Vinci sketch hidden underneath a painting by the Italian master, conservationists said Friday.
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New York museum hosts chocolate exhibition *
The American Museum of Natural History in New York City is hosting an exhibition that explores the legends, history, ecology and economics of chocolate.
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Nudge, nudge, I'm an art object *
A gallery in Vancouver has invited artists to infiltrate the city in quiet ways to challenge social conventions, ALEXANDRA GILL writes
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Odes to a city under siege *
A swing mounted between two brick buildings, a Peggy Lee song, and dance volunteers at Bay and Bloor are all enlisted in this show where Toronto plays the psychotope, SARAH MILROY writes (no wonder we call it "Tee-Zero")
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Old Man attends Queen's *
With his deeply furrowed brow, unsure expression and black shroud, the arrival of an old man in a cap is one of the most spectacular recent art events to take place at Queen's University in Kingston, Ont.
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Ottawa's $90-million monologue *
Hello, Ottawa, this is the West calling. We've just heard about yet another enormous dollop of cultural-infrastructure dollars dropping on the National Capital Region...
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Painting confirmed as a Vermeer *
She sits at a keyboard, in her white skirt and yellow shawl -- until now, a woman of mystery...
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Paintings by Alec Joseph Becker *
Sidney and Gertrude Zack Gallery at the Jewish Community Centre, Vancouver, BC, Thursday, January 17, 2007 to Wednesday, February 6th, 2007. Opening reception, January 17, 7:00 to 9:00 p.m.
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Picasso piece sets auction record *
Pablo Picasso's 1905 painting Boy with a Pipe sold for $104-million (U.S.) Wednesday at Sotheby's, shattering the record for an auctioned painting.
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Portsmouth looks like Venice, doesn't it? *
Few travellers would confuse the southern English port city of Portsmouth with the wonders of Venice and its canals.
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Priceless 'Vase of Warka' returned to Baghdad museum *
The sacred Vase of Warka — one of the most valuable artifacts of the Iraqi National Museum collection, feared lost forever — was returned unceremoniously Thursday in the trunk of a car.
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Protesters to greet Gehry unveiling *
Demonstration is aimed at issue of 'institutional expansion,' not Gehry design, JAMES ADAMS reports.
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Recent Developments: The SPAM Museum! *
Author:photo essay by Anne Garber
One of the truly serendipitous discoveries of our road trip across I-90 in 2002 was the recently opened 16,500 square-foot SPAM Museum, in Austin, MN. This is the town where George A. Hormel started his meat-processing empire in 1891.
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Santa Fe Museum Hill is Tops...and now it is easy to get to *
Santa Fe is known as a city of quality museums; with 10 major museums in town it is a well-deserved reputation. Now the Museum of New Mexico (MNM) and the City of Santa Fe bus system, Santa Fe Trails, have collaborated to provide not only simple direct access to some of Santa Fe's most popular museums but have thrown in a free day as well
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Security video in stolen art case released *
Toronto police released security video tapes Friday showing three “individuals of interest” at the Art Gallery of Ontario the day several ivory portraits worth $1.5-million were stolen.
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Security video of three men in stolen art case released *
Toronto police released security video tapes Friday showing three “individuals of interest” at the Art Gallery of Ontario the day several ivory portraits worth $1.5-million were stolen.
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Shining a light on heritage *
East Coast groups are scrambling to save prized lighthouses from rot and ruin, with help from a New York fund.
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Shining a light on medieval treasure *
Thanks to advanced technology, the Lindisfarne Gospels, the 1,300-year-old masterpiece of an artist-monk, are finally getting the attention they deserve
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Snapping hounds *
A Winnipeg exhibition of 145 photographs of dogs is full of canine wit and human folly
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Something out of (almost) nothing *
The works in the exhibition Stretch seem spare to the point of invisibility, writes, SARAH MILROY but they reward patient looking
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Squeaky-clean David ready for 500th anniversary *
The contested cleaning of
David is done, with decades of grayish grime stripped from Michelangelo's towering tribute to nude male beauty months ahead of 500th anniversary celebrations for the masterpiece.
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Stolen sculptures recovered *
Police have recovered the five ivory sculptures stolen Jan. 17 from the Art Gallery of Ontario. The palm-sized sculptures are worth $1.5-million.
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Strolling through an urban gallery *
One of Europe's finest art collections is on display in the public spaces of Barcelona
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The Art and Soul of Santa Fe **** 1/2
Is your secret fantasy to be a Santa Fe artist? Now you can get a little closer to making that a reality.
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The art that refreshes *
SARAH MILROY sees the strongest of the current shows on water
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The Baroness and Joseph Beuys *
The Italian art lover is wildly passionate about the work of the famous 20th-century German artist, SARAH MILROY writes.
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The battle of the Madonna *
Don't let the calm scene fool you. This tiny, perfect picture is the subject of a fierce fight rife with historical ironies, SARAH MILROY writes, pitting a wealthy gallery in the New World against the staid defenders of culture in Britain. And did we mention the money-hungry Duke?
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The Bilbao effect *
Art versus architecture: Which will win out? SARAH MILROY looks at the magnificence of the new museums and wonders if their beauty is only skin deep.
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The case of the gilded urn *
Significant British art-world trial pits wealthy Canadian against Christie's and a marquess.
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The deco and the decadent *
Although it leaves some thorny questions hanging, a new exhibit captures art deco's drop-dead elegance, SARAH MILROY writes
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The International Museum of Cartoon Art *
The International Museum of Cartoon Art is the only museum of its kind -- with cartoonists represented from over 50 countries.
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The Iron Ladies of England *
Current London exhibitions highlight the public's enduring fascination with women who ruled in a man's world: Elizabeth I and Margaret Thatcher.
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The mummy returns *
A children's choir and a military band greeted the return Sunday of what scholars believe is a royal mummy — possibly Ramses I — that was looted from a tomb and smuggled out of Egypt by a Canadian doctor nearly 150 years ago.
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The mural that rocked Canada *
Considered too anti-American, it hung for only eight days before being taken down. Now Greg Curnoe's magnificent 'Dorval mural' flies again, SARAH MILROY writes
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The new AGO *
Major highlights of Frank Gehry's redesign of the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto...
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The sound of a Canadian identity *
Two exhibits set out to document the relationship between music and art in Canada, but end up doing much more, writes SARAH MILROY
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Vancouver Art goes underground *
ALEXANDRA GILL descends into a dark, dusty bunker three storeys beneath the old B.C. Hydro building, where five of Vancouver's best contemporary artists are briefly reunited in a haunting show.
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Western exposure: Artist Robert Smithson **** 1/2
Artist Robert Smithson had a taste for the magnificence of nature, SARAH MILROY writes, and British Columbia fit the bill. A current exhibition tells the tale of his four visits
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When history meets the eye *
The riches of the Aerial Reconnaissance Archives are opened to the public.
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Winnipeg's singular collective raises a ruckus *
Winnipeg artists are collectively playing the numbers game. In the past, the city established a reputation for producing individual artists of singular talent -- Ivan Eyre, Don Reichert, Wanda Koop, William Eakin and Eleanor Bond are all painters and photographers whose careers have been solo affairs...
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Working in a golden age *
For Canadian artists like Niki Goldschmidt, P.K. Page and Mavor Moore, aging may impede but cannot stop their flow of creativity
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Secondary Sites:
André Breton Sale, Paris *
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Bumbershoot 2003 *
Sorry... finished for 2003
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Canadian Food Museum announces new logo *
The Canadian Food Museum's new logo designs honour Canada's ethnic diversity.
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Estates' rights in Canadian copyright re-examined *
MP seeks to strike controversial 'Lucy Maud Montgomery provision'
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Floating on the resale market *
The big three auction houses of Sotheby's, Joyner Waddington and Heffel are offering 1,000 lots over the next three weeks. But, JAMES ADAMS writes, will they fetch the record-setting numbers of the last three years?
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Hussein: He may be a tyrant, but he loves his art *
When Saddam Hussein went to ground, he forgot to take his collection of fantasy-themed paintings. The cache probably won't make its way to the Louvre, but they say a lot about the man, SARAH MILROY writes...
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Iraq: Threatened treasures *
The full and tragic story of what may well have been the greatest cultural robbery in modern history will take weeks, if not months, to chronicle.
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Lawren Harris painting sells for $1.4-million *
The bullish Canadian art market showed no signs of slowing down yesterday as Sotheby's Canada sold more than 160 lots worth almost $6-million at its spring auction in Toronto, setting records for least four Canadian painters in the process.
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The physics of van Gogh *
The vivid orange-red moon peeking behind a cliff in Vincent van Gogh's Moonrise intrigued physicist Donald Dr. Olson.
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Two feet in the past *
Portraitist Kirsten Johnson has turned a white tube sock and a Stanfield's grey woolly into the subjects of an intriguing suite of paintings that quietly celebrate the comforts of childhood
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